This was a move many many in Bronx politics were speculating on since the fall out of then State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. and then Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda after the 2018 election. While Newly elected Councilman Ruben Diaz was then supporting […]

Branch Wesley Rickey (1881) Rickey was an American baseball executive. In 1919, he devised baseball’s farm system of using minor-league teams to train major-league players. In 1945, after he took over the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied convention and broke a long-standing race barrier by hiring Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the major leagues. A deeply religious man, the “Mahatma”—as Rickey was popularly known—never played, attended, or managed games on Sundays. What protective gear did he introduce to baseball? More…

Feast, n.: A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

bugbear  Definition: (noun) An object of dread or apprehension. Synonyms: hobgoblin Usage: What have I done to be made a bugbear of, and to be shunned and dreaded as if I brought the plague? Discuss.

The Glee Club of P.S. 105 (led by Mr. Fords and Ms. Volpe) came with reindeer antlers to help sing some Christmas songs, meet Santa, and help him light the Christmas Tree on Pelham Parkway. Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez’s office brought the […]

Sunday the Van Nest Neighborhood Alliance had their Coffee, Coco, Cookies, and Carolers as they lit their Christmas Tree and Nativity Scene, at Saint Dominick’s Convent on Unionport Road. After the lighting everyone went inside to meet Santa who gave […]

Tyrus Raymond “Ty” Cobb (1886) Cobb was one of the greatest offensive players and perhaps the fiercest competitor in baseball history. During his 24-year career as an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics, he set records that would stand for decades, including 892 stolen bases—a feat partly attributed to the brutality with which he used his cleats. Cobb provoked controversy on and off the field but was the first player elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame in 1936. Which of his records remain unbroken? More…

The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

free-spoken Definition: (adjective) Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion. Synonyms: candid, forthright, frank, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder, outspoken, plainspoken, blunt Usage: They appeared remarkable figures, free-spoken men with whom one could be at ease. Discuss.